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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do humans look like to the Tralfamadorans?
(a) Butterflies
(b) Chimpanzees
(c) Pale worms
(d) Millipedes

2. What question does the Frenchman ask about the Grand Canyon?
(a) If many people commit suicide by jumping into the canyon
(b) If you could go white water rafting on the river
(c) If there were any good hotels inside the canyon itself
(d) How many species living in the canyon had gone extinct

3. Who wrote a fan letter to Kilgore Trout?
(a) Kurt Vonnegut
(b) Eliot Rosewater
(c) Paul Lazzaro
(d) Billy Pilgrim

4. What is the only book Billy can read on the trip to Tralfamadore?
(a) The Sorrow and the Pity
(b) The Dollhouse Murders
(c) The Valley of the Dolls
(d) How Green Was My Valley

5. What does the hobo in Billy's railroad boxcar tell him?
(a) The secrets of Trafalmadore.
(b) That he knows him from somewhere.
(c) That he's been hungry for weeks.
(d) That he has been in worse situations than this.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprised the British officers most about the American prisoners?

2. What author does Eliot Rosewater tell Billy about?

3. Who, according to Campbell, would the Americans be fighting if they joined him?

4. What does Campbell offer the prisoners if they join the Nazis?

5. When was Billy kidnapped by the Tralfamadorans?

(see the answer key)

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